There’s much more to fly fishing than tying on a fly and whipping your line around a pond. Casting, hook setting and reeling all demand a level of finesse that goes beyond what anglers experience when ...

In my last article on fly rods, I snuck in a few terms that might be new to non-fly fishers. These included backing, fly line, leader, and tippet. Let’s start with how a fly rod works to explain these ...